The column will appear when the Xymon server receives the data packet from the client and if it can match the client data packet to a configured client.

I would first check your ghost clients report to see if anything appears there, maybe the name of the client isn't matching the name you have configured in Xymon? If nothing appears in your ghost client report or you are 100% sure that the client name is configured correctly in Xymon then check that the client packets are being received by Xymon; personally I use snoop to confirm that the data is being received because it's a tool I know lots about, I am sure there are better tools or Xymon log files that could be checked though, others will know better than I.

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laidman Sent: 30 August 2012 02:57 To: Benjamin Boudoir Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Script launched but no column appears

Have a look at the Ghost Clients report. On 29 August 2012 19:04, Benjamin Boudoir <benjamin.boudoir at eeple.fr<mailto:benjamin.boudoir at eeple.fr>> wrote: Hi,

I've recently add a client perl script on some of my linux servers but the Xymon server does not add the column.

The script seems to work correctly because I can see it data with bb- hostsvc.sh. I explicitly add the column name in bb-host but nothing's happen.

Any ideas?

Regards,

-- Benjamin Boudoir meltyNetwork / Eeple Administrateur Système

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On 31-08-2012 10:48, Benjamin Boudoir wrote:

The client is not a ghost, it's monitored since months and works well. The packets are probably recieved because I can see it in the client data on the server.

If you can see it in the *client* data, then you are sending it the wrong way. Custom status checks should use a *status* message when sent to the Xymon server - if you use "client" data messages, then nothing happens unless you have a module running on the Xymon server to pick up those data and do something with them.

See http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-tips.html#scripts for more about custom tests.

Regards, Henrik